NEARLY £10,000

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 5

NEARLY £IO,OOO

wAlApb ZONE EFFORT PATRIOTIC FUNDS During the-, past. ~t\yo .y&grs, ,the Waiapu County sub-zone of . the East Coa’st Provincial Patriotic Council has been, responsible for, the payment, of rpofe than £9OOO t<3 the'Council; while in addition large numbers of parcels have; been.dispatched and help given to the armed forces in .other directions, so that, the, total assistance .for patriotic purposes during, the., two years would fall not far short of £IO,OOO ......

. For the general patriotic, fund, the zone collected £970 during the first year; and. £2709 last, year, and with £52 donated .direct to the council from within .the zone the total contribution's, for general purposes, were brought up. to £3732. For the rehabilitation fund, £4017 was collected the first year and £673 the second; while with! £765 . in direct donations the rehabilitation total from Waiapu was brought, to £5456. For both .purposes, the .aggregate is £9IBB for the two years. . ■. ... .... .-.;l The Waiapu zone, for the year just closed, was asked, to raise £4027, but the zone committee felt that the best it could do was to secure £2600. The actubr total was £2682, in.addition to £673 for. the rehabilitation fund, and with £52 8s paid direct to the council by. the. donors the year’s total was brought to £3408. Sub-committees at Tokomaru Bay, Waipiro-Te Puia,., Ruatoria and Tikitikji .were actively'engaged in. varied functions, and the committees, conducted farewell dances for members of the forces leaving for overseas. Parcels sent away last year totalled 831.. In these activities great help, was secured from the Maori people on the Coast in organising, preparing arid dispatching considerable, quantities of special-foods for the members of the Maori Battalion.